Details

Subject(s)

• English language—Alphabet—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• Animals—Pictorial works—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• Children—Pictorial works—Juvenile literature [Browse]

Publisher

• Martin, G. (George), active 1812-1846 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Primers (Instructional books). [Browse]
• Pictorial paper wrappers [Browse]

Summary note

Following frontispiece are 13 engraved pages of alphabet letters (both upper-and lower-cased), arranged two to a page, accompanied by couplets of verse and illustrative hand-colored depictions of personages, animals, objects, flowers, or plants, including: King Alfred, a Dutch ship, a Frenchman, a knight, a miller, a naughty boy, a street pedlar, verjuice, a usurer, a wise man from the East, a youth studying, a zany with a duncecap; the final 2 pages each contain 2 vignettes of children or young adults sporting outside.

Notes

• Cover title and imprint.
• "Price 1 shilling coloured"--After title on upper wrapper.
• First and last pages laid down to wrappers.
• Martin active at 6 Great St. Thomas Apostle from 1817-1839 (cf. Todd, Directory of printers, p. 127)
• Text begins: "Aa: A stands for Alfred / A fam'd British King" ; "Bb: B for a Bullfinch / That can sweetly sing."

Binding note

Publisher's stiff salmon-orange wrappers, upper (with hand-colored engraved pictorial onlay label) presenting a version of frontispiece illustration of a Britannia-like Fame atop an alphabetic pedestal column, admired by 4 children below on the ground.

Other title(s)

Gift for the nursery.

OCLC

1340127507

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